Chapter 2
I woke in the morning to the sun shining through my window. I looked outside, hoping to find Jay sitting on the windowsill, but was disappointed when I found only a chirping bluebird. I frowned, slipping off my bed and walking over to my dresser. I slipped on some jeans and a t-shirt and combed through my knotted hair. I was only a couple steps outside of my door when I noticed the note on my desk. I stopped abruptly and turned quickly, jumping to it in two lithe steps.
I quickly grabbed the note and I unfolded it. In Jay's unique script, it said:
Gabrielle,
Meet me at the Pittsburg City Park at noon.
See you soon.
Love, Jay
My heart beat wildly when I read the last line quietly to myself. I looked at the clock on my wall. It said it was eleven so I had about an hour before I had to be there. But I decided to head out early; the church was a fifteen minute walk from my house so I would just have to look around the shops for a while. Then I headed out.
My parent's were still asleep in their room. They didn't know what I was. They had no idea that on my thirteenth birthday I had been lured into a dark alleyway by a beautiful woman. Well, she wasn't so beautiful when she changed into a mangy wolf and bit my arm. Oh, the pain was so terrible. An hour later, the pain stopped and the woman was staring at me with an evil smile on her face. She had told me what I was and that I had to eat humans to survive. I didn't believe her until she changed into a wolf again and lunged at me. My reaction was instant, and I changed into a wolf myself to protect myself from the evil woman. She stopped her attack as soon as she proved to me that I was a shape shifter too. But the fury that over whelmed me at being changed into a monster took over and I destroyed the women with one bite at her neck.
I left the house and ran into the woods so I could have a good run in my wolf form. I could sense everything around me as I ran; the smell of the pine trees surrounding me, the taste in my mouth as I passed two deer grazing, and the leaves that fluttered to the ground behind me. When I was like this, running with all my might, it was like it was just me and the forest, no one to tell me what to do. I could just be free.
After about fifteen minutes of running, I cooled down to a walk. Taking in the beauty of the forest, I breathed in a gust of wind coming upwind. I could just barely taste the hint of human that was in it. The last time I had hunted was 3 days ago, and I suddenly could not control my hunger.